The download comes in the form of a compressed .IMG file, which can be extracted and then written to an SD card (2GB minimum). The first thing worth noting in this release is that the default username/password are different:

Username: pi

Password: bodhilinux

As for changes, this release is now utilizing Terminology as it's default terminal emulator and PCManFM file browser has been replaced with the native EFM (Enlightenment File Manager). The issues our first image had with networking and flash drives should also be resolved with this release. Also worth noting is that the AppCenter is now configured to work by default in the Midori web browser - but the synaptic interface runs fairly slow on the Pi hardware.

Finally - if you have any issues with this image please open a support request in the RaspBerry Pi section of our user forums. That is a much better place to trouble shoot than the comments section on this post.

Bodhi Linux might be a good direction to go for a Raspberry Pi official distro. Me and a friend were wanting a lite distro that used Enlightenment DR17 and I think that would be a great graphical environment for the Pi. DR17 is such a good balance of performance speed and eye candy.

It's great distribution but like someone else told before me - why do not use Raspbian as a base OS? Now Raspbian figures as stable release, it contain some Hard Float optimizations. I do not know exactly how these optimisations looks like from repository site but I think Raspbian is sin-worth.

I've installed it on mi Pi but it seems that I cannot install any software on it. When using the 'install now' button, I receive a message saying either "Package 'NAME PACKAGE' is virtual" or "Could not find package 'NAME PACKAGE'". And when using the download option, I cannot find any way to run the .bod file (I do change the execute permission).

I understand that the install now option cannot be used with a fresh installation. So what should I do? Thanks a lot for your help.

The current version of our AppCenter is not fully compatible with our ARM releases. We are working on bringing this functionality over ASAP. For now you need to install software via the command line or with Synaptic.

Also be sure you are using our latest ARMHF release - the links in this post where old, I am updating them now.

Thanks a lot! Works fine using the command line. However, I tried to install libreoffice but it seems that the armel file does not exist. Anyways, great job and thanks again Jeff for your time and efforts... :)

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